IF WE LEARN ANYTHING ABOUT THESE HEATWAVES LET IT BE THAT WE NEED TO MAKE OUR CITIES GREENER. PLANT SOME TREES. BUILD A PARK. WE NEED MORE GREEN SPACES.
Growing up hearing “Wikipedia isn't a valid source” and then entering a workplace where people say “just ask ChatGPT” is a surprisingly strange timeline
IF WE LEARN ANYTHING ABOUT THESE HEATWAVES LET IT BE THAT WE NEED TO MAKE OUR CITIES GREENER. PLANT SOME FUCKING TREES. BUILD A PARK. WE NEED MORE GREEN SPACES.
i actually think "surface level" friendships are very healthy. not everyone in your life has to be your ride or die. some friends are for the gym. some are for going out. some are just for complaining about work or bureaucracy. when you stop expecting everyone to be your everything, the disappointment disappears. those deep convos and connections are for the 2-3 people closest to you
BREAKING: Two people have climbed to the top of the Empire State Building in New York City, holding a banner from the skyscraper's antenna reading, "When the power of love beats the love of power, the world knows peace."
As of now it's unclear how the pair reached the top of the building as police work to get them down from the spire, 1,454 feet above the ground.
If these heatwaves teach us anything, it’s that we need to make our cities greener. Plant more trees. Build more parks. Protect the forests we already have. We need more green spaces.
Ages 25–30 are really tough. You’re dealing with a shrinking friend group,aging parents,fixing the financial mistakes from ur early 20s,your career and your health. You’ve gotta find time to heal your mind. You just have to.
Uncommon advice: If you don't know what to pursue in life right now. Pursue yourself. Pursue becoming the healthiest, happiest, most healed, most present, most confident version of yourself. Then the right path will reveal itself.
In America today, we rank 34th out of 35 countries in childhood poverty and millions of children are food insecure.
Maybe, just maybe, my Republican colleagues would consider holding a single hearing about how we improve the lives of American kids.
A few years ago, I was helping a kid find a book for a school project.
Couldn't have been older than 9.
He needed something about Native American history, so I walked him over to the right section and pulled a book off the shelf.
Me: This one's pretty good.
Me: It talks about different tribes, traditions, and where they lived.
Me: There's even a map in the back.
Kid: Awesome. Thank you!
He grabs the book and heads off.
Simple interaction.
Or so I thought.
A few seconds later, another customer walks up to me looking genuinely concerned.
Customer: Why would you tell him that?
Me: Tell him what?
Customer: That those people are real.
Me: ...which people?
Customer: Native Americans.
I laughed a little because I thought she was joking.
She wasn't.
Me: Well...
Me: Because they are real.
Customer: No they aren't.
Me: They absolutely are.
Customer: No.
Customer: They're movie characters.
Me: Movie characters?
Customer: Yeah.
Customer: Like cowboys.
At this point my brain completely stalled.
Me: I'm sorry...
Me: Do you think Native Americans only existed in Western movies?
Customer: Exactly.
Me: You know there are Native Americans alive right now?
Customer: No there aren't.
Me: There definitely are.
Customer: That's ridiculous.
The confidence was incredible.
Not a shred of doubt.
Not even curiosity.
Just absolute certainty.
Customer: Next you're going to tell me cowboys were real too.
I stared at her for a second.
Trying to figure out whether I was being pranked.
Me: Ma'am...
Me: Who do you think the movies were based on?
Customer: ...
Me: ...
Customer: Well that's just your opinion.
And then she walked away.
To this day, that's still one of the strongest displays of confidence I've ever witnessed.
Not intelligence.
Just confidence.